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Jay Kreps

Jay Kreps is the cofounder and CEO of Confluent, a company focused on Apache Kafka. Previously, Jay was one of the primary architects for LinkedIn, where he focused on data infrastructure and data-driven products. He was among the original authors of a number of open source projects in the scalable-data-systems space, including "Voldemort":http://project-voldemort.com/, "Azkaban":https://azkaban.github.io/, "Kafka":http://kafka.apache.org, and "Samza":http://samza.incubator.apache.org/.